Funny because I just went the other way. I was running Arch/i3 on a Lenovo W530 I had for work. At some point I couldn't take it anymore. I wanted to use my hea

Funny because I just went the other way. I was running Arch/i3 on a Lenovo W530 I had for work. At some point I couldn't take it anymore. I wanted to use my headsets over bluetooth. I wanted to have no issues with monitor DPI and scaling and the dreaded optimus Nvidia technology. I don't want to have to think about which port I use to connect to an external monitor. I want Wifi to be a solved problem. Boot the laptop, choose the network, enter password, done. I want good battery life and the most basic compositing features enabled. In hindsight it's crazy that I'd fiddle with WM_STATE_SOMETHING in compton so that X has shadow but Y doesn't if they overlap with transparency (or something like that). My dunst notifications looked very aesthetically pleasing but... so do countless default notifications on mainstream distros. Yes, the whole mopidy/mcp/whatever looks really rad, especially if a program uses vi(m) keyboard shortcuts, but my music player really isn't something I want to think about and learn. Playing music isn't such an integral part of my work day that I need to make it more efficient. I am now using a MacBook Pro at work and on my desktop at home I use Antergos with Gnome. The latter is perfect as it gives me up-to-date packages and easy access to the AUR, while still coming with the bells and whistles of Gnome. I am also not sure if tiling windows really improve your productivity. I would say that most people would be better of having their apps on full-screen, to minimize distractions, instead of having all sorts of windows side-by-side. Ultimately I nowadays resonate more with what some other posts have mentioned: pick a platform and programs with sane defaults and only deviate from them if it's really worth it. If your job requires you to look at several terminals at the same time constantly and things like terminator/tmux/gnome-terminal don't do it, then sure, look into i3 (herbstluftwm/[insert flavor of the month]). Anything else I would now consider premature optimization.